war stories

"When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa's dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter"--Provided by publisher.

Three siblings must navigate through war-torn Syria to honor their father's dying wish to be buried near Damascus. As they are captured, recaptured, imprisoned, and bombed, the family's decisions continue to have consequences for all of them.

"[Relates] the story of a child of war torn from the country and home he knows and loves, amid the swirling confusion of political upheaval, violence and personal loss. Based on a true story about a young boy who was exiled to Siberia as a child during the Second World War"--Back cover.

After their parents awake from a sleeping spell, Daphne and Sabrina become caught in the middle of a war between the Scarlet Hand and Prince Charming's Everafter army and learn a shocking secret about a deadly enemy.

During his service in the Civil War, a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.

It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this is the most important day of the twentieth century, and both children want to fight, and survive.

When humans declare war on mermaids, Luce swims to San Francisco Bay where she finds a group of "twice lost" girls, lost once when trauma turned them into mermaids and again when they defied mermaid law, and unites them into an army under her leadership.

A strange meteorite crashes near London in the nineteenth century, and George and other residents discover an alien cylinder while a Martian turns on an evil, destructive machine and everybody tries to find a way to survive.

In the late 1960s, sixteen-year-old Lam Hung guides an American platoon through South Vietnam, but seeing as how Lam was once a member of the Viet Cong, his job leading the men around the dangers hidden in the jungle might not be as difficult as earning the men's trust.

Max Brooks, son of actor Mel Brooks, chronicles the fictitious "zombie wars" that nearly decimated the human population, with first-hand accounts from people who have had a brush with the undead and facts and figures documenting how many undead currently roam the planet.